User And Product Embeddings
User and product embeddings
We calculate user and product embeddings based on the training set, and evaluate the results on the unseen test set. We will evaluate the results by plotting the user and product similarity versus the review score. The dataset is created in the Get_embeddings_from_dataset Notebook.
1. Calculate user and product embeddings
We calculate these embeddings simply by averaging all the reviews about the same product or written by the same user within the training set.
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We can see that most of the users and products appear within the 50k examples only once.
2. Evaluate the embeddings
To evaluate the recommendations, we look at the similarity of the user and product embeddings amongst the reviews in the unseen test set. We calculate the cosine distance between the user and product embeddings, which gives us a similarity score between 0 and 1. We then normalize the scores to be evenly split between 0 and 1, by calculating the percentile of the similarity score amongst all predicted scores.
2.1 Visualize cosine similarity by review score
We group the cosine similarity scores by the review score, and plot the distribution of cosine similarity scores for each review score.
Correlation between user & vector similarity percentile metric and review number of stars (score): 29.56%
We can observe a weak trend, showing that the higher the similarity score between the user and the product embedding, the higher the review score. Therefore, the user and product embeddings can weakly predict the review score - even before the user receives the product!
Because this signal works in a different way than the more commonly used collaborative filtering, it can act as an additional feature to slightly improve the performance on existing problems.